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Practices, risks and tradeoffs in how companies collect, store, share and secure personal information from consumers via devices and apps.
Meta says it fixed a bug that let Ray-Ban Meta glasses record conversations without the wake phrase. One user saw it on three pairs with the setting off. Stored voice logs are what teams should check.
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Amazon's About You page, built from five kinds of shopping data, went viral after a Threads user found it had concluded she "has flat buttocks." Teams planning to show users an inferred profile should expect the strangest line to be the one that gets posted.
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Meta's Muse agent refreshes dossiers on its users and the people they know every hour, TIME found in a review of the agent's internal instructions. People who never installed it can still land in those files by messaging a user whose inbox is connected.
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Meta's Muse sent YouTuber Matt Robb's home address to every buyer who made an offer after he ticked 'allow always' instead of 'allow one time'. The cartoon mascots on Muse and OpenAI's Dots leave that risk where it was, in permission screens people click once and forget.
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Waymo staff watching two teens through a cabin camera called 911 over a gun that fired water-filled Orbeez. Robotaxi cameras now feed both human reviewers and automated violation checks, so telling riders who is watching has become a design choice AV teams have to make on purpose.
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Meta's Muse agent gave Matt Robb's home address to a Marketplace buyer without asking, then to five more people after he told it to stop. Robb says he never approved the disclosure. Two ordinary settings added up to it, and it went out in his name.
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The CCPA access machinery companies have been building since 2020 just got a field test from one reporter with a spreadsheet. The failures cluster in support queue design rather than in the law itself.
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Verge reviewer Victoria Song gave Meta's Muse agent health details she had withheld after its mascot reshaped itself from her email, though its 5K plan was mid. For teams deploying agents, the extra data came from the design, with no sign yet that the advice improved.
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Oppenheimer found only 8% of US consumers would trust Meta with their passwords, the access its Muse Charm keychain needs to shop for them. Meta is shipping it by December anyway, so its retail deals depend on a permission most US buyers say they would withhold.
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The bank says its new Commerce Media unit will sell brands access to more than 70 million customers based on their spending histories, and cardholders who do not want those ads have to opt out.
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Walmart was granted patents in January and March covering automated markdowns and price recommendations. Reviewers at the Future of Privacy Forum and the ACLU told Fortune the filings set item prices, and Walmart says it does not price by customer.
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Internal posts seen by 404 Media say Muse can pass a user's request to a trained human agent who places the call, and one tester learned a person had dialed only afterwards. How often it happens is unclear.
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The feature surfaced in the app before Anthropic announced it, so the supported banks, the broker of the connection and the handling of the transaction history it reads are all unannounced.
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Ugreen's three-tier hub line tops out at a Jetson Thor box rated up to 2,070 TOPS. Its cheapest model charges roughly seven times more per TOPS than that flagship does. All three are currently half price.
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